http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 03:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174276 Diodeus Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:54:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174276 Yes, someone really needs to define "Visible from space" as "Viewable from low earth obit with the unaided eye". Yes, someone really needs to define “Visible from space” as “Viewable from low earth obit with the unaided eye”.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174201 valdis Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:00:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174201 The Studebaker trees are interesting, but not sure if they're big enough to count as "visible from space".  Looking at Google Earth, I can easily make out the elliptical track at an "altitude" of 35 miles, but the trees become visible as a long clump of trees around  11 miles, distinguishable as letters around 40,000 feet, and legible around 25,000 feet. The Studebaker trees are interesting, but not sure if they’re big enough to count as “visible from space”.  Looking at Google Earth, I can easily make out the elliptical track at an “altitude” of 35 miles, but the trees become visible as a long clump of trees around  11 miles, distinguishable as letters around 40,000 feet, and legible around 25,000 feet.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174167 invisiblemonkey Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:25:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174167 This isn't the planet of Preliumtarn! This isn’t the planet of Preliumtarn!

]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174159 Dick Pilz Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174159 Put 41.67,-86.49 in Google Maps. The Studebaker trees have been there over 70 years. Put 41.67,-86.49 in Google Maps. The Studebaker trees have been there over 70 years.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174147 James B Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:53:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174147 I'm pretty sure the Nazca Lines are an advertisement pointing to the tasty cattle that the space aliens use to refill their meat replicators.  Planet Earth is like culinary tourism for aliens. I’m pretty sure the Nazca Lines are an advertisement pointing to the tasty cattle that the space aliens use to refill their meat replicators.  Planet Earth is like culinary tourism for aliens.

]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174143 Hungry Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:49:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174143 Are those footprints left in wet cement? Are those footprints left in wet cement?

]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174130 Wowbagger_Infinitley_Prolonged Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174130 Conspicuously absent: "We apologise for the inconvenience" Conspicuously absent: “We apologise for the inconvenience”

]]> http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174128 dross1260 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/2011/07/27/ads-visible-from-space.html#comment-1174128 Caterpillar proving grounds...once. Caterpillar proving grounds…once.

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